I no longer work with busy people. I work with people who have a lot on their plates, a lot to do, are inundated with opportunities and projects, and who find it useful to have an extra brain and an extra set of hands to help them accomplish all of it.
I love working with those [...]
Far and away, the biggest mistake I made starting out in business was making myself too available and responding to email way too often. I wanted to seem competent and trustworthy, and the easiest way I knew to do that was to be perpetually available. I tried to be unavailable as little as possible (bordering [...]
Email, for many of us, has reached a point where it feels burdensome and out of control on more days than not. Some folks are ditching email entirely–an impulse I can’t claim is unfamiliar, though I’m not prepared to go to that extreme for business reasons.
I’m not alone. Leo declared independence from email. Gwen is [...]
One of my favorite people in the world, Jen Hofmann (who also happens to run one of my favorite small businesses in the world, Inspired Home Office), invited me to write a guest post for her blog on the topic of finding a VA.
I happily accepted her invitation, and my post “5 Guiding Principles of [...]
People go seeking assistance for myriad reasons.
When it comes to solopreneurs seeking assistance from a virtual assistant, though, there are two main camps of people: those who are seeking help with tasks and projects, and those who are seeking help with overwhelm, and view getting help with tasks and projects as a means to [...]
If you follow Tim Ferriss’s advice about outsourcing — or if you just hire more than one other person to help you with your business — you’re probably losing money, time and clients. And it’s probably happening because things are falling through cracks, slipping into the void left by The Missing Link.
There’s a Missing Link [...]
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